I recently installed perl 5.15.9 (a developer release). I am in process of installing various modules via cpan. I noticed that "r" command lists only a few modules ...
r
Package namespace installed latest in CPAN file
App::Cpan 1.5701 1.5902 DAGOLDEN/App-Cpan-1.590
+2.tar.gz
Archive::Extract 0.58 0.60 BINGOS/Archive-Extract-
+0.60.tar.gz
Archive::Tar 1.82 1.84 BINGOS/Archive-Tar-1.84
+.tar.gz
CPAN::Meta 2.120630 2.120921 DAGOLDEN/CPAN-Meta-2.12
+0921.tar.gz
CPAN::Meta::Requirements 2.120630 2.122 DAGOLDEN/CPAN-Meta-Requ
+irements-2.122.tar.gz
CPAN::Meta::YAML 0.007 0.008 DAGOLDEN/CPAN-Meta-YAML
+-0.008.tar.gz
CPANPLUS 0.9121 0.9129 BINGOS/CPANPLUS-0.9129.
+tar.gz
Compress::Raw::Bzip2 2.048 2.052 PMQS/Compress-Raw-Bzip2
+-2.052.tar.gz
Compress::Raw::Zlib 2.048 2.054 PMQS/Compress-Raw-Zlib-
+2.054.tar.gz
File::Fetch 0.32 0.34 BINGOS/File-Fetch-0.34.
+tar.gz
HTTP::Tiny 0.017 0.020 DAGOLDEN/HTTP-Tiny-0.02
+0.tar.gz
IPC::Cmd 0.76 0.78 BINGOS/IPC-Cmd-0.78.tar
+.gz
Memoize 1.02 1.03 MJD/Memoize-1.03.tgz
Module::Build 0.39_01 0.40 LEONT/Module-Build-0.40
+.tar.gz
Module::Load::Conditional 0.46 0.50 BINGOS/Module-Load-Cond
+itional-0.50.tar.gz
Object::Accessor 0.42 0.44 BINGOS/Object-Accessor-
+0.44.tar.gz
Params::Check 0.32 0.36 BINGOS/Params-Check-0.3
+6.tar.gz
Parse::CPAN::Meta 1.4402 1.4404 DAGOLDEN/Parse-CPAN-Met
+a-1.4404.tar.gz
PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint 0.06 0.07 ELIZABETH/PerlIO-via-Qu
+otedPrint-0.07.tar.gz
Safe 2.31 2.33 RGARCIA/Safe-2.33.tar.g
+z
Search::Dict 1.04 1.07 DAGOLDEN/Search-Dict-1.
+07.tar.gz
Socket 2.000 2.001 PEVANS/Socket-2.001.tar
+.gz
Term::ANSIColor 3.01 3.02 RRA/Term-ANSIColor-3.02
+.tar.gz
autodie 2.10 2.11 PJF/autodie-2.11.tar.gz
version 0.96 0.99 JPEACOCK/version-0.99.t
+ar.gz
Compress::Zlib 2.048 2.052 PMQS/IO-Compress-2.052.
+tar.gz
DynaLoader 1.14 1.15 NWCLARK/perl-5.8.6.tar.
+gz
Filter::Util::Call 1.40 1.43 RURBAN/Filter-1.43.tar.
+gz
JSON::PP::Boolean undef 2.27200 MAKAMAKA/JSON-PP-2.2720
+0.tar.gz
514 installed modules have no parsable version number
they are
Module = CPANPLUS::Backend (BINGOS/CPANPLUS-0.9129.tar.g
+z)
Module = CPANPLUS::Backend::RV (BINGOS/CPANPLUS-0.9129.tar.g
+z)
Module = CPANPLUS::Config (BINGOS/CPANPLUS-0.9129.tar.g
+z)
Module = CPANPLUS::Configure (BINGOS/CPANPLUS-0.9129.tar.g
+z)
Module = CPANPLUS::Configure::Setup (BINGOS/CPANPLUS-0.9129.t
+ar.gz)
Module = CPANPLUS::Dist (BINGOS/CPANPLUS-0.9129.tar.g
+z)
.
.
Module = Config (N/A)
Module = DateTime::Locale::Base (DROLSKY/DateTime-Locale-0.45
+.tar.gz)
Module = DateTime::Locale::Catalog (DROLSKY/DateTime-Locale-0
+.45.tar.gz)
.
.
.
... some of the modules not listed are DateTime, Scalar::Util, Term::Read(Key|Line*). (These also do not appear in show_unparsable_version list.) Needless to say r /DateTime/ and r /./ also fail to show, e.g. DateTime, module version status.
Has anybody noticed this? Am I missing somthing?